Quotes from Mark Twain

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

Do the thing you fear the most and the death of fear is certain.

A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.

It's the little things that smoothes people's roads the most.

When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.

Don't go around thinking the world owes you a living. It was here first.

People talk about beautiful relationships between two persons of the same sex. What is the best of that sort as compared with the friendship of man and wife where the best impulses and highest ideals of both are the same? There is no place for comparison between the two friendships; the one is earthly, the other divine.

If you have to swallow a frog, don't stare at it too long.

We catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that we laughed, only a kind of low chuckle. We had mighty good weather, as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next.

Don't you worry your pretty little mind. People throw rocks at things that shine and life makes love look hard

Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.